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Sandro Simoncini got his diploma with the best notes at the
Conservatory "G. Verdi" in Milano, under the guidance of M° Paolo Borciani.
Then he attended for more than three years the School for Chamber Music of M° Franco
Rossi at the Conservatory of Florence. From the very beginning he got wonderful approvals
and awards: he won the first category prize at the National Competition for Violin
Students in 1972-73-74-76 and the first absolute prize at the National Violinists Meeting
in Senigallia in 1975. He soon began his concert
activity in Italy and abroad, exhibiting at the International Music Festival in
Bardonecchia under the direction of M° Carlo Zecchi, at the concerts for
"Musicanalisi" at the theater La Fenice in Venice hold by M.o Messinis. He
participated at the tournées of I Nuovi Virtuosi di Roma in France, Switzerland, Bulgaria
and Japan) and of I Solisti Veneti. With the latters he recorded CD and took part to the
film for the French television "Hommàge a Vivaldi".
In these last years he has
collaborated with renewed chamber groups like I Solisti della Scala and I Virtuosi
Italiani and has been called by the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala to take part in
several productions and tours under the guidance of renewed directors like Riccardo Muti
and M.Wung-Chung. He has been member of several juries of violin competitions (National
Competition of Vittorio Veneto, National Competition of Tortona) also teaching in the
International Master-Classes of Fivizzano, Asolo Musica, Saluzzo. For Asolo Musica he has
also held Master-Classes of string quartet in Treviso. Since 1979 he has been professor
for violin at the Conservatory "A. Boito" in Parma.
In 1985 he was one of the founder of the
Giovane Quartetto Italiano, a name suggested by M.o Paolo Borciani, M.o Elisa Pegreffi,
M.o Piero Farulli and M.o Franco Rossi, who were their teachers. The quartet immediately
got important recognition: for two years the Honour Diploma at the Accademia Chigiana di
Siena, at the Accademia Musicale Pescarese and at the Staatliche Musikhochschule in
Karlsruhe. He got the Agis-prize in 1982 and the Dragoni-prize in Fiesole.
The Giovane Quartetto Italiano
has performed in the most important venues in Italy and all over the world (Japan, USA,
URSS). Also collaborating in quintet ed octet with numerous artists: the pianists Mario
Borciani, Maurizio Zanini, Bruno Rigutto, Boris Petrushansky, Roberto Cappello, the
guitarrist Stefano Grondona, the clarinettists Depeyer, Mayer, Daniels, the violist Danilo
Rossi and the Borodin Quartet. For its CD with Claves, Emi, Adda and Nuova Era the Giovane
Quartetto Italiano - from 1996 named Nuovo Quartetto Italiano - got the highest
recognition given by the critics: Stella d'oro, Diapason d'or, Choc du Monde de la
Musique, Prestige, Gran Prix du Disque.
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